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Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

By : Louis Authie
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Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

Practical Module development for Prestashop 8

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By: Louis Authie

Overview of this book

After version 1.7, PrestaShop underwent a host of changes, including migration to a Symfony-based system from an outdated legacy code. This migration brought about significant changes for developers, from routine maintenance to module development. Practical Module Development for PrestaShop 8 is curated to help you explore the system architecture, including migrated and non-migrated controllers, with a concise data structure overview. You’ll understand how hooks enable module customization and optimize the CMS. Through the creation of seven modules, you’ll learn about the structure of modules, hook registration, the creation of front-office controllers, and Symfony back-office controllers. By using Doctrine entities, services, CQRS, grids, and forms, you’ll be guided through the creation of standard, payment and carrier modules. Additionally, you'll customize and override themes to achieve your desired e-commerce store look. By the end of this book, you’ll be well equipped to provide modern solutions with PrestaShop that meet client requirements.
Table of Contents (23 chapters)
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Part 1 – Understanding How PrestaShop is Structured and How It Works
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Part 2 – How to Create Your Own Modules
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Part 3 – Customizing Your Theme
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Appendix – Module Upgrade, The Hooks Discovery Tool, and Multi-Store Functions

The legacy FO controller initialization

Here, we will do reverse engineering of a legacy FO controller. As seen in Chapter 1, Quick Overview of PrestaShop, when you visit a public page of a PrestaShop website, it is managed by a controller using an ObjectModel child object for the database interactions and generating the view with a Smarty template (MVC pattern).

For this practical study, we will focus on how the system initializes and handles a front-page call from the URL request to the controller instantiation.

Let’s do it with a product category page example. When you browse the FO, it’s a product listing page. Indeed, in PrestaShop, a Category is the entity responsible for displaying groups of products.

Initializing a Category FO controller

By default, when URL rewriting is on, the category page URLs are structured like this: https://www.urlofthewebsite.extension/categoryId-name, with categoryId as an integer and name as the slug of the category name...

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